Narrow colonial streets of pastel stucco and brick, two blocks of them still paved in ship ballast cobblestones, run down to the park where Netflix's Outer Banks played a Chapel Hill afternoon.
What French Quarter looks like
State Street runs through blocks of two and three storey merchant houses, their fronts stucco over brick in shades of pink, grey and pale yellow. Queen Street has the same scale one block over. Shutters, wrought iron gates and small balconies repeat down each block, with a gallery or antique shop worked into a ground floor storefront here and there. The streets are narrow enough that parked cars on both sides leave a single lane open, with one way signs common at the corners.
keeps two blocks of its original cobblestones, rounded ballast stone rather than the quarried paving block used elsewhere in the Quarter. The Pink House Tavern faces the cobbles from a slim two storey building of pinkish Bermuda stone, one of the oldest houses still standing in the city.
sits at the Quarter's southern edge, a brick paved square under old live oaks with a granite obelisk to the Washington Light Infantry at its centre. The Netflix series Outer Banks used the square as a stand in for a park in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in the scene of Sarah and John B walking through it.
The 's Gothic Revival front and the Dock Street Theatre's wrought iron balcony over sandstone columns both stand on Church Street, added in the 1830s and 1840s. rises over the same block, its steeple visible past the palmettos and gas lamps along the sidewalk.
Shot in French Quarter
Washington Square is the French Quarter's public green, a brick paved square shaded by live oaks at the corner of Meeting and Broad. The Netflix series Outer Banks used it for a scene set in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Outer Banks, Netflix series
Washington Square Park
Played a park, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, present day
Sarah and John B walk through the square in a scene set in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The production used the park's brick paths and oak canopy rather than a specific building. Street View
What French Quarter can double for
St. George's in Bermuda
St. George's shares the same pastel stucco over masonry and narrow lanes as the French Quarter, and its oldest houses are built of the same Bermuda stone the Pink House used on Chalmers Street. The scale of a two or three storey merchant town holds for the 1700s and 1800s alike. Bermuda's roofs are white stepped limestone rather than Charleston's standing seam tin, so a low angle that keeps rooflines out of frame holds the match best. Try searching pastel stucco narrow lanes now.
The Historic District in Annapolis, Maryland
Annapolis' Historic District has the same run of two and three storey brick and stucco merchant houses close to the water, most built between the 1700s and the early 1800s. Both towns keep the same colonial seaport scale, narrow streets lined close with similar houses. Annapolis' brick sidewalks and street widths are both narrower than Charleston's, so a wider lens exaggerates the difference and a longer one flatters it. Try searching colonial seaport brick streets now.
The Colonial Quarter in St. Augustine, Florida
St. Augustine's Colonial Quarter keeps the same narrow lanes and close balconied facades, and both towns grew up as walled colonial ports before the American Revolution. The coquina stone and red tile roofs look distinctly Spanish next to the French Quarter's brick and stucco, so a tight street level frame that keeps rooflines out of shot holds the match better than a wide one. Try searching narrow colonial port lanes now.
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